The first step to making career decisions is assessing your particular skills and job preferences. What is your personality type, aptitudes, skills, strengths and weaknesses? All of these factors are important to identify at the start of any successful job search campaign.
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Importance
Find out why these subjects are important to your career, and see the proof in our statistical research.
Why
To benefit from positive job satisfaction, personal fulfillment and outstanding career development, you must be in an occupation that suits your skills, knowledge and strengths, and that takes into account your dislikes and personality traits.
Statistics
More than half of all Australians aged 15-64 years now have qualifications attained out of school.
What To Do
Looking for a job or planning a career requires groundwork and careful preparation. The more you know about how to do it, the greater the probability of your success. A comprehensive list of Tips and Tools has been put together to help you no matter what stage of the job search process you are at. There is no use being told what to do, you need the tools to do it, giving you the confidence to identify and secure your perfect job.
Tips (Theory)
Finding your dream job starts with understanding yourself and what drives you. Use the following points to begin your self-assessment:
Document what you offer ...
Knowledge (e.g. courses),
Skills (e.g. what you can do) and,
Experience (e.g. what you have done)
Document your personality ...
Motivations (e.g. ambition to be manager, desire to retire early, etc.)
Values (e.g. honesty, open communication, commitment, etc.)
Interests (e.g. professional pursuits, hobbies, etc.)
Attitude (e.g. hardworking, pessimistic, etc.)
Critically evaluate your ...
Strengths (e.g. why someone would want you on their team)
Weaknesses (e.g. what would prevent someone from wanting you)
Tools (Practice)
To assist you assess your skills, here is a Skills Assessment Checklist to help you.
Caution
Do your characteristics compliment your chosen career?
Information
We are continually on the lookout for useful information for the jobseekers. In order to better serve you, we now post relevant articles, news items, events and service providers that may be of interest to you.
Further Research
The following career-related articles have been carefully selected to assist you in the job search decision-making process.
Links
Assessing Your Skills
http://www.careeronestop.org/SKILLS/SkillCenterHome.asp
http://thewriterstoolkit.com/assessing_your_skills.htm
http://mvp.cfee.org/en/selfassessskills.html
Service Providers
Here are a list of service providers to assist you with your job search and employment opportunities.
Career Fit
Contact:
Phone: 02 4225 2257
Fax: 02 4225 0257
Email: info@careerfit.com.au
Website: www.whatsmycareer.com
Company Description:
Career Fit provides online career assessment kits that identify the careers you are suited to. The kits provide step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow, and that lead you to your ideal career from a choice of 600 career possibilities.
Choose from the SILVER Career Assessment Kit for students or the more advanced GOLD Career Assessment Kit.
If you're choosing your first career...or you want a change of career...or you've reached a cross road in your career and don't know whether to turn left, right, or straight ahead...the Career Fit